if you are looking for a great inexpive gift this is it , quailty is great and it's a breeze to build

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16 of 16 people liked this

simple and detailed

By dave.reagles
January 11, 2016

A great kit for both beginner and experienced modelers alike. Beginners will find it both challenging and rewarding and the experienced will find much to add and to do to make a good model even better!

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15 of 15 people liked this

Such a fun model!

By clunymike
February 20, 2017

Inexpensive, detailed, easy to assemble, and LOTS of opportunity for creativity! The only thing missing detail wise was the wire supports for the wings, but a spool of black thread and a little research can solve the problem quickly. The plans have paint schemes for two WWI aces, Werner Voss, and Herman Goering (I chose to do the Werner Voss one since he was a better pilot, and he died in battle, whereas Goering turned into a morphine fueled monster in Hitler's Third Reich) The decals are slightly inaccurate as Voss had a swastika painted on the side of his plane for good luck, while the decals provided have some other symbol (maybe so that the model can be sold in Germany?) Voss wasn't a Nazi (most obviously because the party didn't exist), and the swastika had VERY different meanings in WWI, so I went ahead and painted it on for the sake of accuracy. Also, if you don't want to do either of these paint schemes, a little research will yield TONS of paint schemes. Pilots in WWI were a bunch of peacocks, and they all took pride in decorating their planes individually so you can go nuts with the paint scheme. The model is so cheap that you might even want to purchase a few, and form your own mini Jasta! All in all, a super duper fun build.

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9 of 9 people liked this

albatros

By sadiecakes2015
December 9, 2016

great kit for under 10 this kit cam be built in a day very simple not a lot of parts 1 the only negative thing I can say is that the parts are packaged without plastic around them so the parts can fall off the sprues and become loose in the box that's what happened with mine I put all of mine in a large zip lock baggie so loose parts don't get lost